Best of luck to Harry and Iestyn for tonight’s opening of Rinaldo at Lyric Opera. Look forward to having you both with the band later this month. Here is a preview of some of the music from the opera. Join Baroque Band Harry and Iestyn for an Handel program March 9, 10 & 14 click here [...]
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Amid rough moments, Baroque Band brings worthy advocacy to Handel rarity
Fri Jun 03, 2011 at 3:14 pm By Bryant Manning Handel’s first oratorio La Resurrezione, written when he was just 23 and premiered in 1708, will be making the rounds in several performances over the next few days. This colorful two-part liturgical drama was written for Easter during the opera ban in Rome, and the [...]
Chicago Stage Style by Lawrence Bommer
Chicago Opera Theater’s Medea-themed, baroque- opera, hit- parade continues in Millennium Park, with Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s 1693 five-act triumph “Medea.” It’s the hump show between last year’s similarly-plotted “Giasone” by Cavalli and next season’s “Teseo” (where Medea is also a central character) by Handel. Nearly three hours and performed in French with English supertitles, this tour [...]
New City Stage – Medea
By Dennis Polkow A Chicago premiere, more than three centuries after a work was first performed? Welcome to Charpentier’s “Médée,” that seventeenth-century chestnut that as a byproduct of the court of Louis XIV fell into neglect until being rediscovered by the modern early music movement of the 1980s and nineties. It had been a long-stated desire [...]
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